Meaning of steam-engine | Babel Free

Examples

“[…] Lady Wentworth’s elbows were upraised to her shoulders, and then depressed, like the piston of a steam-engine; […]”

“There was a sudden loud shriek which nearly set me screaming: I’ve been found out, I’ve been discovered. But it was only the noise of the black steam-engine coming in from the heaps.”

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